Board Member - Patsy Rubio Cano, MPH, PhD
Patsy Rubio Cano, MPH, PhD, serves as a Senior Staff Analyst at the Houston Health Department. In this capacity, Dr. Cano provides planning, evaluation and research assistance as well as capacity building planning and implementation for the Department. Dr. Cano has a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and received both her MPH and her PhD from the University of Texas/School of Public Health at Houston.
Prior to her work as an analyst, Dr. Cano served as Bureau Chief for Health Promotion and Education overseeing all health promotion and education initiatives at the Health Department. The focus of health promotion and education included chronic disease (Arthritis, Asthma, CVD, Diabetes, TB, etc.) and injury prevention (intentional and unintentional). In her many years of service, Dr. Cano worked in other capacities at the Houston Health Department including oversight of the Women’s and Children’s Health Care programs (bringing in over twenty-one million dollars of state funding for well-child, maternity and family planning services); Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention; as well as the last two years of two CDC multi-million dollar funded grants in Injury Prevention: (1) Youth Violence Prevention Program and (2) Preventing Violence During Pregnancy.
Prior to her employment at the Houston Health Department, Dr. Cano worked at two large community-based organizations-Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA) and the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA). While working at AAMA, Dr. Cano brought several million dollars of federal funding for the George I. Sanchez High School, their alternative education school. She was also able to secure state accreditation for that high school.
Dr. Cano was the recipient of the 19th Annual Willie Velasquez Hispanic Excellence Award in Health.
Prior to her work as an analyst, Dr. Cano served as Bureau Chief for Health Promotion and Education overseeing all health promotion and education initiatives at the Health Department. The focus of health promotion and education included chronic disease (Arthritis, Asthma, CVD, Diabetes, TB, etc.) and injury prevention (intentional and unintentional). In her many years of service, Dr. Cano worked in other capacities at the Houston Health Department including oversight of the Women’s and Children’s Health Care programs (bringing in over twenty-one million dollars of state funding for well-child, maternity and family planning services); Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention; as well as the last two years of two CDC multi-million dollar funded grants in Injury Prevention: (1) Youth Violence Prevention Program and (2) Preventing Violence During Pregnancy.
Prior to her employment at the Houston Health Department, Dr. Cano worked at two large community-based organizations-Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA) and the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA). While working at AAMA, Dr. Cano brought several million dollars of federal funding for the George I. Sanchez High School, their alternative education school. She was also able to secure state accreditation for that high school.
Dr. Cano was the recipient of the 19th Annual Willie Velasquez Hispanic Excellence Award in Health.
Treasurer - Michael R. Bailey
Michael Bailey is Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Community Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA) for American First National Bank. In this role, he oversees the financial institutions’ Corporate Compliance Program and, coordinating with the legal counsel, is responsible for establishing standards and policies pertaining to regulatory requirements to help ensure legal, and proper conduct, for making sure these standards are communicated and institutionalized across the Financial Institution, and for monitoring the financial institutions’ compliance with these standards and policies. As CRA Officer, Mr. Bailey sets lending, investment, and community service targets and manages numerous activities required to achieve the financial institutions CRA objectives.
Before his current role, Mr. Bailey was SVP, Bank Secrecy Act Officer. He was responsible for coordinating and monitoring day-to-day Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing compliance and charged with managing all aspects of the BSA/AML compliance program and with managing the bank’s adherence to the BSA and its implementing regulations.
Prior to joining American First National Bank, Mr. Bailey worked at Briggs and Veselka, where he was a Senior Auditor. In this capacity, he executed control testing focused on credit, operational, compliance, financial reporting and technology risk and for interviewing business process owners to create process documentation, executing test work, and independently documenting audit findings.
Mr. Bailey has more than 19 years of experience in the financial services industry. He received his BBA-Accounting degree from the University of Houston, Bauer College of Business.
Before his current role, Mr. Bailey was SVP, Bank Secrecy Act Officer. He was responsible for coordinating and monitoring day-to-day Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing compliance and charged with managing all aspects of the BSA/AML compliance program and with managing the bank’s adherence to the BSA and its implementing regulations.
Prior to joining American First National Bank, Mr. Bailey worked at Briggs and Veselka, where he was a Senior Auditor. In this capacity, he executed control testing focused on credit, operational, compliance, financial reporting and technology risk and for interviewing business process owners to create process documentation, executing test work, and independently documenting audit findings.
Mr. Bailey has more than 19 years of experience in the financial services industry. He received his BBA-Accounting degree from the University of Houston, Bauer College of Business.
Secretary - Yvonne Green
Yvonne Green serves as the Founder, Consultant, and Empowerment Coach with Green Network and Associates, LLC. She is a procured consultant with National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB), a board member of RAISE Texas, a proud graduate of both Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, and University of Houston with a Licensed Master of Social Work degree (LMSW).
Mrs. Green brings her passion and social impact to people, collaborations, asset building, home buying
and over 20 years of volunteer and social service experience to the community. She has served in
several capacities such as a Sr. CRA & Fair Lending Analyst with American First National Bank, as Director
of Financial Empowerment Services with Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAM), as Director and Bank
On Fellow with Bank On Houston, as a Policy Analyst in the 83rd Texas Legislature in the Office of former
State Representative Garnet Coleman, as well as contracting with non-profit organizations with a focus
to support a positive financial empowerment impact within communities.
She loves helping people, communities and organizations reach their potential and realize their goals by
working passionately with communities to build financially healthy relationships through exposure to
opportunities, education, and healthy financial habits.
Mrs. Green brings her passion and social impact to people, collaborations, asset building, home buying
and over 20 years of volunteer and social service experience to the community. She has served in
several capacities such as a Sr. CRA & Fair Lending Analyst with American First National Bank, as Director
of Financial Empowerment Services with Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAM), as Director and Bank
On Fellow with Bank On Houston, as a Policy Analyst in the 83rd Texas Legislature in the Office of former
State Representative Garnet Coleman, as well as contracting with non-profit organizations with a focus
to support a positive financial empowerment impact within communities.
She loves helping people, communities and organizations reach their potential and realize their goals by
working passionately with communities to build financially healthy relationships through exposure to
opportunities, education, and healthy financial habits.
Board Member - David Leftwich
David Leftwich is a Houston-based writer, editor, and poet. He is the author of the chapbook The City, published by Little Red Leaves Textile Series and he was co-founder and executive editor of Sugar & Rice, a Gulf Coast food and culture journal. His work on the intersection of food, culture, immigration, and history has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Sugar & Rice, Edible Houston, Food+City, Cite, and Houston Food Finder, where he is an associate editor. He serves as president of Foodways Texas’ advisory board, on the board of Can Do Houston, on Urban Harvest’s farmers market committee, and on Plant It Forward’s advisory board. He is also a research associate at the University of Houston’s Center for Public History.
Chair Emeritus - Lovell Jones, PhD
Dr. Lovell A. Jones is one of the founding members of CAN DO Houston and has served as either Vice Chair or Chair of the Board of Directors since its inception. Today, Dr. Jones serves as Chair Emeritus of CAN DO Houston. Dr. Jones is also the founding Co-Chair of the Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC), the nation's largest multicultural health policy group focused on minorities, the medically underserved and cancer. He has edited "Minorities & Cancer," one of the few comprehensive textbooks on this subject. He is the founding chair of "Minorities, the Medically Underserved and Cancer," the nation’s largest multicultural conference which provides a forum for exchanging the latest scientific and treatment information. This biennial conference brings together people from all ethnic communities and social strata to share strategies for reducing the incidence of cancer among these populations. Dr. Jones also has spearheaded regional hearings on cancer and the poor for the American Cancer Society for his efforts in addressing the underserved. This is one of numerous honors he has received over his lifetime. In addition to CANDO Houston and ICC, Dr. Jones is also the founder of the Health Disparities, Education, Awareness, Research, & Training (HDEART) Consortium, now with over 50 Institutions/organizations working to utilizing the “Biopscychosocial (Hokistic) Approach in addressing healH inequities. In 2013, Dr. Jones retired from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, becoming the first African American Professor Emeritus. In 2014, the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences also honored him with that title, resulting in Dr. Jones becoming one for the few, if not the only African Americans with dual emeritus status in the University of Texas System. Dr. Jones then joined the faculty as Professor and Associate Dean for Research. In 2018 he again retired and stepped down as Executive Director of HDEART C. Dr. Jones presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Unity of Houston and leads the GROW Unity Resources For Living Initiative.